10-26-15 21:48 Alan Zisman wrote to Ed Vance about Do You use DVD-R or D   
   Howdy! Alan,   
      
    AZ> @MSGID: <562F5480.14561.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    AZ> On 2015-10-26 8:15 AM, Ed Vance -> TOM WALKER wrote:   
      
    TW>> A Quick Check shows that a 3  disk package costs $10 and a 20   
    TW>> disk package is $40   
      
    EV> Thanks, the website I looked at, had a Pack of 50 TDK DVD+R DL discs   
    EV> for $49 and a Pack of 20 Verbatim DVD+R DL discs for $40 USD.   
      
    EV> I can buy a 100 Pack of regular DVD+R discs for $39, so the cost of DL   
    EV> discs isn't as high as I thought they would be.   
    EV> I'll buy a 50 Pack of TDK DL discs if I ever want to store a gob of   
    EV> files on One disk.   
      
      
    AZ> I picked up a big stack of DVD +R discs a couple of years ago - I don't   
    AZ> think I've used one of them.... it's been ages since I burned a disc of   
    AZ> any sort.   
      
    AZ> I used to back up videos, downloaded files, and more - but now, with a   
    AZ> 512 GB USB2 external disk, I don't bother with optical media. (Yes, I   
    AZ> know hard disks fail - but frankly, nothing I have is that precious.   
      
   It IS easier to use HDD's than burning to optical media isn't it?   
      
   I'd think it takes a lot less time to manually Copy files to a HDD,   
   or use Back Up software to archive files to a HDD than to put them on   
   a CD or DVD.   
      
   Besides making a Back Up with Acronis True Image occasionally, I have used   
   alternating sets of RW DVD's for additional storage of the pictures on my   
   camera's memory card as an extra back up by burning the photo files to DVD.   
      
   I too worry about losing the Back Up on my Ext. HDD, so after TI gets done   
   making a Back Up, I Copy the Back Up to another Ext. HDD I have.   
      
   Belt and Suspenders!   
      
   I though I had it made when I got a 3TB External Drive and made   
   sub-directories on it for the external HDDs that I put Back Ups on and   
   copied the backup I had on those drives to that BIG HDD.   
      
   Then I started using the 3TB HDD to make the original Back Up and learned   
   that that HDrive made the TI Back Up in One Large File instead of several   
   4GB size Files TI would put on my smaller Ext. HDDs.   
   (smaller as in 1TB, 640GB and 330GB HDDs)   
      
   I copied files that I made on my Computer to the 3TB Ext. HDD as a Temporary   
   backup in between the times I made a Back Up with TI.   
      
   Then the 3TB Ext. HDD died during the warranty period and the Company sent   
   me a 3TB replacement.   
      
   At least I still had the Back Ups I made to my older HDDs, but lost the ones   
   I made on the 3TB drive because I didn't try to copy the large (>4GB) backup   
   from the 3TB HDD to one of my other Ext. HDDs.   
      
   My thoughts now are the next Ext. HDDs I buy won't be bigger than 2TB since   
   this computer is NTFS and iirc 2TB is the maximum size HDD where it will still   
   make 4Gb size files during my Back Up, I think.   
      
    AZ> I have a drawer or two filled with burnt DVDs... I should go through   
    AZ> them and see what - if anything - I actually want to keep.   
      
   You got a BIG JOB ahead of You, Alan!   
      
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   Off and On I've been trying to find a Commodore 64 Floppy Disk that had a   
   Text (SEQ) File I made in the late 1990's just before I had the 486DX33   
   computer built.   
   I'm still occasionally going through the boxes of Floppies looking for it.   
      
      
      
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